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by 303space 7mo ago
Every article about Block should begin with the context setting that this is a company that spent $300m to acquire a failing music streaming startup simply because the CEO likes hanging out with celebrities. It’s impossible to take any of B
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by 303space 7mo ago
The way OpenAI and Anthropic are positioned in public discourse always reminded me of the Uber vs Lyft saga … Uber temporarily lost double digit marketshare in the US during a viral boycott over their perceived support of the Trump 1.0 ad
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by 303space 7mo ago
If you bought Stripe at a 95b valuation in 2021 your returns are barely keeping up with the SP500 after this latest round. Not exactly an elite capital growth machine.
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by 303space 3y ago
Genuinely curious - what’s the comp package like for 72 hours of interim CEOing a 80b company?
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by 303space 6y ago
Also the article claims “800 million riders” which is astounding for an app that is currently #36 in the navigation category (iOS App Store). Unless this app is more popular than TikTok everywhere outside of the US they’ve gotta be playing
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Camera vs. Lidar(scale.com)
137 points by 303space 7y ago|138 comments
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Is Elon Wrong About LiDAR: Benchmarking AV sensor performance(scale.com)
2 points by 303space 7y ago|0 comments
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by 303space 7y ago
I think it’s actually a very savvy strategy to protest from within. It’s too easy for Google to shrug off or ignore public criticism. They’ve done this for decades with virtually no repercussions because they hold a monopoly on their core b
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How Some Uber and Airbnb employees are trying to avoid California income tax(recode.net)
2 points by 303space 8y ago|0 comments
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Lyft Sues NYC Over Minimum Wage for Drivers(wired.com)
3 points by 303space 8y ago|0 comments
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by 303space 8y ago
Not sure where you got the idea that Waymo doesn’t value hardware development - their whole lawsuit saga against Uber was over lidar trade secrets (google “laser is the sauce”). Maybe you were thinking of Tesla who has insisted their existi
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by 303space 8y ago
Also if the tokens can be used for 3rd party “Sign in through Facebook” authentication this just compromised millions of people’s entire digital identities for everything from dating sites to financial logins.
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Google is helping the Pentagon build AI for drones(gizmodo.com)
9 points by 303space 9y ago|2 comments
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Facebook exec apologizes after tweets on Russian election interference go viral(wired.com)
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by 303space 9y ago
If you open the link SMPLC is actually Zipcar’s NGO and basically every mobility startup signed this proposal. Full list of signatories: “BlaBla Car, CityMapper, Didi, Cityway, Jetty, Keolis, LimeBike, Lyft, Mobike, Motivate, Ofo, Ola, Scoo
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by 303space 9y ago
Does anyone else find this whole thing more than a bit hypocritical? Lyft is always telling you they are the better/ethical/woke ridesharing option - now their employees are reporting a culture of abusing customer privacy. I wish